Adventures at the Irish Festival | Virtual Field Trip | KidVision Pre-K

Ireland is an island in northwestern Europe, next to Great Britain. Ireland is a country filled with castles, music, dancing, and the color green. People call it the Emerald Island because the land is covered with green grass, hills, and clover. One of Ireland's biggest celebrations is St. Patrick's Day. It's celebrated in many countries around the world. People wear green and celebrate Irish culture with music, dancing, and fun. Parades are often a big part of the celebration. You will see lots of shamrocks on St. Patrick's Day. Shamrocks are tiny green plants with three heart-shaped leaves, and they're considered to be very lucky. You'll also see lots of images of leprechauns. Leprechauns are small, mischievous fairies from Irish stories. According to legend, they hide a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Some friends and I got a chance to make our own pots of gold and rainbows. Your hair looks awesome. Thank you. Then it's time for some music. Irish music is fun, upbeat, and often uses instruments like a fiddle, a special drum, and bagpipes. So we are the Byrne Brothers, all the way from Donegal in Ireland. So introduce yourself there. I'm Luca. I'm Finn. I'm Dempsey. Wonderful. We play traditional Irish music, and the boys are dancers as well. I saw that. You're amazing. That is so much fun. Tell me about your instrument. It's a traditional Irish barron. It's from Ireland, so it's made in Ireland. And it's made out of goatskin, and it's like one stick, hold it between my hands, and I go like this. That sounds great. Let's hear your instrument. So this is just a traditional guitar. I also have a four-string Irish banjo. I play it too. I heard that. It's amazing. Thank you. Great. And what are you playing? This is just the Irish foot accordion. It's terrific. Can I hear it now? Cool. And tell us about your band. I play the Scottish pipes. I also play the Ireland pipes, which are the Irish pipes. The fiddle, guitar, all the whistles, tin whistles, all that kind of stuff. So we have about 15 instruments between us. And when we're doing a theater show, we switch around all the instruments between songs, music, and dancing. And yeah, it's great fun. This is called the Highland bagpipes. It's a very special instrument that we play, and it's played all over the world. It really is. And it can play some very sad music, and it can play some really fun music. And today, for St. Patrick's Day, we're having lots of fun. Bagpipers often wear kilts. A kilt is a special skirt that boys and men wear in Scotland and sometimes Ireland. It's made of a thick cloth with a colorful plaid pattern called a tartan. So do you blow directly into it? Well, I blow into here, and then it fills up this bag here. And this is called a bagpipe? The bag itself, right. And then I have three drones right here. They're called drones? They are. There's two tenors, and then I have a big long one, which is called the bass. And that makes a real deep, deep, deep, deep sound. And then this one here, it only has nine holes, and that makes nine different notes. And my fingers move really fast, and that makes all the music. Irish music makes you want to dance. Irish dancing is fun and energetic. Dancers keep their arms straight by their sides while their feet move super fast.